The SASL_README doc has a section about doing a telnet test of a PLAIN SASL authentication. There are some methods suggested for generating the base64 hash required to do the authentication, Of those two methods one requires downloading a special utility to generate the auth string and the other requires installing a perl module. I have a third suggestion:
echo -ne '\000username\000password' | openssl base64 This method is relatively easy to do, and will work with the programs that are already readily available on most systems. I think it would be good to add it to the docs. Regards, Peter Ajamian
